Jennifer Lyons

This includes lesson plan (with common core standards) and activity sheet. Lesson plan not shown. For this lesson I suggest viewing a short film (2 minutes) called StoryBots Great Innovators: the Wright Brothers (youtube) During this lesson, you can watch this short video, then allow students to choose from multiple paper airplane designs of your choosing (designs not included). invite students to pair up with a partner for experimenting (partner should have a different type of design) As stud

Icludes worksheer (shown) and lesson plan for activty (not shown) This activity sheet and lesson is about the invention of busses and cars. We read the book Don't Let the Piegon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems and then used various supplies (teacher supplied) to build cars or busses within small groups. Students should be given items to choose from as a group. After a group finished, I didn't allow them to get new items or change items. They had to work with what they picked. The worksheet prov

I use this product with a lesson in which I teach about various forces and motions (inertia, motion, forces, and friction). We learned what these words mean and then did an experiment by using 3 marbles and a ruler with an indent in the middle (like a mini ramp down the center of it) and a small bathroom sized cup at the end of the ruler. One marble sits at the opposite end and two sit directly in the center of the ruler. Students must make predictions about what will happen when they flick the